People back in the day thought the animator actually trained bugs to move like this. I mean, it IS the closest thing to necromancy we'll ever get, I'll give em that.
Its crazy to think people are able to do stop motion on dead insects! Coz as the insect dies, it gets more and more fragile as days gone by due to its insides drying.. example cockroaches, just a day after its death its legs can easily fall apart just by moving them!
You can soften insects again after they’ve been dead a while with damp paper towels. I’m not a professional taxidermist but I’ve done some bug taxidermy and pinning for fun and they’re easy to move around again, though their legs and antennae are always going to be a little bit fragile because they’re so small.
"Mr. Beetle is generous. He forgives his wife and takes her to a movie." OH NO Edit: I like how they're all just watching the movie, not doing anything about it.
Only non realistic part is that some of the dead bugs have wires for arms due to them falling apart... Example, Cockroaches! After 1 day its death, its legs can fall off easily!
7:22 - "Draw me like one of your French bugs, Jack." 10:47 - Is it fair to ask how the vengeful cameraman knew that the Beetles would be here to watch his little opus? Bizarre subject matter aside, I think I should be allowed to ask that question. lol
Well, I think it's fair enough to forgive all logic in the _funny anthropomorphic reanimated dead bugs stopmotion cartoon made by Russians before WWI had begun_ and assume he had the power of hindsight on his side.
@@nickmandleberg Actually he's name was ,,Władysław Starewicz" he was Polish but as Poland didn't existed as a country back then this animation is recognized as Russian
Damn, such an impressive and one of a kind animated film. Stop motion using real bugs! The premise of anthropomorphic creatures was extremely novel back then, let alone using ACTUAL real dead bugs to simulate these characters! Insane stuff. Russia had an immensly good head start in the medium of animation from the very beginning, and they continued that strong steam well into the Soviet times.
Was wondering how they achieved the effect of the movie being shown in the little bug theatre when I realised it is probably a stop-motion animation of photographic stills.
or maybe the bug theatre itself is the still and then just used camera trickery and recorded the movie being projected onto the still itself. Photo editing is almost as old as photography itself
Absolutely love this imaginative and original film!! The colors and tones used are so beautiful to me. Would rather watch this any day than the crap that the 'Hollywood money-machine' regurgitates these days.
@@vesuviacorpseflower4828 RoboCop and Joker, War Games is probably up there, and they're so full of substance, better than a 100+ year old robot chicken sketch
@@poob1082 Hahahahaha!! I didn't say it was the greatest film ever made man. Some of my favs... Runaway Train (US 1985 John Voight, Eric Roberts), Hardware (UK 1990 Dylan McDermott), Nekromantik (Germany 1988), The Cemetary Man (UK/Italy 1994 Rupert Everett), Brain Candy (1996 Kids In The Hall movie), A Clockwork Orange (UK 1971 Malcolm McDowell), etc!!
@@vesuviacorpseflower4828 have seen peanut vendor, Metropolis 1927, All quiet on the western front 1930? Silent films are so amazing. But All quiet on the western front does have sound.
This short film is clearly full-on adults, as most of the jokes would fly over children's head, and most likely frighten them, due to the use of stop motion dead bug corpses.
Fascinating.. For the time it was made is remarkable. You could have made this today and not tell the difference. Well of course CGI had to ruin the effort to put into this art form to its misery. There are some film makers try to attempt this these days buts it's not the same.
came here from hannahthehorrible's dnr iceberg video, i dont get how this is on tier six because this is actually pretty fascinating. albeit a little creepy though lol
So, this is what the bugs in my dreams do outside of being part of my dreams. Well I'm generally surprised that they have a life outside of my dreams like committing adultery.
Tbh this is impressive considering this is 108 years old and using actual dead bugs!
😳
Bruh
i know I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know a good place to watch newly released movies online?
@Benton Maxton i would suggest flixzone. Just google for it =)
@Finley Eugene Definitely, been using Flixzone for months myself :D
@Finley Eugene Yup, have been watching on Flixzone for since april myself :D
People back in the day thought the animator actually trained bugs to move like this.
I mean, it IS the closest thing to necromancy we'll ever get, I'll give em that.
If that was the case Jeuse imagine the amount of torture they had to go to
Who would have thought that marital infidelity was so rife among beetles.
Totally. How many affairs did Paul McCartney have before he met Linda? And Ringo was married how many times?
@@sclerismockrey8506 You forgot John Lennon and May Pang.
😂
The Beetles had got some Issues with Each Other.
This is the rated R version of a bug's Life.
More like Soviet version
@@NoobGamer64-gj4ic lol
@rileysartcorner8798 same it's very nostalgic for me
@@NoobGamer64-gj4ic it's 1912, you mean tsar Russia version
108 years later, and it's still impressing!
110 years later....😂
@@superdiarrhoeatoilet5312 what??
wait i was being stupid sorry
@@superdiarrhoeatoilet5312 ☹️
The others: dead bugs
Me: gay dragonfly
gay back then meant happy
They took "reanimating the dead" way too seriously. Love it
*FOR ME, STOP-MOTION DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!*
*AND BY "THE GAY DRAGONFLY NIGHTCLUB, THEY POSSIBLY MEAN HAPPY, NOT HOMO!*
Masterpiece
@@retropre-certstrikesagain666 oh
Yes i feel is just raw and so authentic so original... Like watching an Alice Guy Movie.
wondering if Franz Kafka got to see it in his lifetime
I was having the same thought.
@@isabelnunes6334 Same.
I see many here are cultured people and have read The Metamorphosis
@@rdc2021 I read **both** of them. :D
@@odio3965 Ah, another cultured individual...
I wonder if Franz Kafka ever saw this. It was released in 1912, Metamorphosis in 1915...
Its crazy to think people are able to do stop motion on dead insects!
Coz as the insect dies, it gets more and more fragile as days gone by due to its insides drying.. example cockroaches, just a day after its death its legs can easily fall apart just by moving them!
apparently he used wire instead of their legs!
And no I watched something and it said he put small pieces of wire in between the body and legs
The insects are alive...
You can soften insects again after they’ve been dead a while with damp paper towels. I’m not a professional taxidermist but I’ve done some bug taxidermy and pinning for fun and they’re easy to move around again, though their legs and antennae are always going to be a little bit fragile because they’re so small.
Did not know this was a thing. . . But okay 👍🏼
This is the 1912 stop motion version of "caught in 8k"
Weird to think those bugs are almost certainly dead by now... and back then too.. really makes you think about bugs
It's so funny to see how little humor has changed in over a full century
I will never unsee two dead bugs doing it.
Everyone's Talking About How The Guy's Using Dead Bugs But No Ones Talking About How This Was Made The Same Year The RMS Titanic Sunk
Survivors of the Titanic could have seen this movie a few months after the disaster. It came out on October 27th 1912
Because there is no correlation
"Mr. Beetle is generous. He forgives his wife and takes her to a movie." OH NO
Edit: I like how they're all just watching the movie, not doing anything about it.
This is better than hyper realistic CGI.
The fact that they use real dead bugs To Film Is Truly Amazing
Only non realistic part is that some of the dead bugs have wires for arms due to them falling apart... Example, Cockroaches! After 1 day its death, its legs can fall off easily!
More like gross
@@Malaysia_Ball1123Incredible! :D
For a sec i thought the painter accidentally burned himself by hiding in the fireplace, until i realized he snuck out the chimney.
7:22 - "Draw me like one of your French bugs, Jack."
10:47 - Is it fair to ask how the vengeful cameraman knew that the Beetles would be here to watch his little opus? Bizarre subject matter aside, I think I should be allowed to ask that question. lol
Hello Bobsheaux
just keep the reel ready next to the movies because they eventually will
Well, I think it's fair enough to forgive all logic in the _funny anthropomorphic reanimated dead bugs stopmotion cartoon made by Russians before WWI had begun_ and assume he had the power of hindsight on his side.
PETA would never allow a remake.
Everyone’s talking about how cool the bugs are are we gonna ignore the fact that’s it’s about beetle cheating and a secret gay porno
This is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever watched
WoW imagine that this is 5 years before Russian Rev. And maybe Tsar himself watched this movie
Tsar Nicholas II did indeed see this movie and even awarded Starevich (the creator) official decoration in recognition of his works!
@@nickmandleberg Actually he's name was ,,Władysław Starewicz" he was Polish but as Poland didn't existed as a country back then this animation is recognized as Russian
@@nickmandleberg Russia and Germany did not allowed Poles to speak their language
This doesn't deserve tier 6 on the iceberg... but this does deserve a watch!
This is actually my favorite short film, very interesting.
Everything aside for a moment, this is really good stop-motion work, dang!
This is truly fkin awesome, by far one of the coolest short films/stop motion things I have seen
I'm speechless. It's beautiful. ART.
The audience at that time thought that these were real trained beetles :), but this is not so
Amazing for being 110 years old!🤩
Wow, I enjoyed all 12 minutes of this, extremely impressive and ahead of its time.
it's been 111 years old. And they actual using dead bugs !!
This is quite impressive for 1912.
Interesting Isn't it?
I love this video, criminally under rated♡
Imagine David Attenborough or someone like that reading the captions like a documentary!
this is so funny i wish it was real
Gay dragonfly, I get they don't mean gay gay, gay has other definitions but that did not age well
gonna have to smash the like button on that
I'm glad I decided to watch this!
Makes me think of Frog and Toad for a little bit as far as stop action animation goes.
Damn, such an impressive and one of a kind animated film. Stop motion using real bugs! The premise of anthropomorphic creatures was extremely novel back then, let alone using ACTUAL real dead bugs to simulate these characters! Insane stuff. Russia had an immensly good head start in the medium of animation from the very beginning, and they continued that strong steam well into the Soviet times.
Well, maybe they were not dead at all, just gifted actor bugs.
Haha someone bring a oscar for the best comentary
This is impressive. Must have taken an extraordinary amount of time.
Is that a frog performing on stage?
A frog entertaining the bugs they eat.
The fact that the 1933 Film The Peanut Vendor was black and white and this one was filmed in 1912 with Color
It was not filmed with Color. It's tinted black and white.
@@Herod9 o ok my bad
Thanks for sharing this masterpiece
Was wondering how they achieved the effect of the movie being shown in the little bug theatre when I realised it is probably a stop-motion animation of photographic stills.
or maybe the bug theatre itself is the still and then just used camera trickery and recorded the movie being projected onto the still itself. Photo editing is almost as old as photography itself
This is a masterpiece!
wait this is 108 years old
Impressive work done here 😍
Imagine how old this is
108 years old
109 years old now
110
111
112 (in a month or so)
A video from 1912 really got copyrighted ☠︎
It’s ok I killed many night guards and played with there bodys
And I destroyed Tokyo
I beg your pardon?😀
Absolutely love this imaginative and original film!! The colors and tones used are so beautiful to me. Would rather watch this any day than the crap that the 'Hollywood money-machine' regurgitates these days.
"I'm different"
@@poob1082 What are your favorite films???
@@vesuviacorpseflower4828 RoboCop and Joker, War Games is probably up there, and they're so full of substance, better than a 100+ year old robot chicken sketch
@@poob1082 Hahahahaha!! I didn't say it was the greatest film ever made man. Some of my favs... Runaway Train (US 1985 John Voight, Eric Roberts), Hardware (UK 1990 Dylan McDermott), Nekromantik (Germany 1988), The Cemetary Man (UK/Italy 1994 Rupert Everett), Brain Candy (1996 Kids In The Hall movie), A Clockwork Orange (UK 1971 Malcolm McDowell), etc!!
@@vesuviacorpseflower4828 have seen peanut vendor, Metropolis 1927, All quiet on the western front 1930? Silent films are so amazing. But All quiet on the western front does have sound.
You guys know their actually dead bugs control with wires and arms and legs shut with wax
that just makes it even better
This is incredible, considering the fact that the creater is using different characters in one stage and making different movements
For a 1912 stop motion, this is pretty good. The only thing I dont like is Mr beetle is basically che**ting on Mrs beetle
Mrs beetle was cheating on him too!
@@ckg95ty Yeah, but MR. Beetle was a massive hipocrite. He cheated on his wife and then got mad when she was cheating on him.
@@noalapizza-paella3986 thats where the humour comes from. I mean the exact same reaction came from Mrs. beetle in the theatre.
wait...the first dancer is a frog...right?
No, he's just french
Yep, it's a frog. Not sure why the frog doesn't just eat them, haha.
@@gallibon1319so they used a corpse of a frog?
This short film is clearly full-on adults,
as most of the jokes would fly over children's head,
and most likely frighten them,
due to the use of stop motion dead bug corpses.
ah, i see you are a man of culture
Ayyyyye
Frighten? Most kids play with bugs.
This must of been hard cuz bugs limbs fall of easily
Fascinating..
For the time it was made is remarkable. You could have made this today and not tell the difference. Well of course CGI had to ruin the effort to put into this art form to its misery. There are some film makers try to attempt this these days buts it's not the same.
This is kinda gross and creepy, but impressive as hell as what they were doing with the dead bugs In stop motion was ahead of its time
The first stop motion is
E A R L Y S O V I E T
Actually it’s from the Russian empire which existed from 1721-1917
Had to give a dislike for not knowing when the Soviet Union actually started.
Here via No Such Thing As a Fish...
Yep ! Ditto
I love the big horn on Mr. Beetle's forehead ;-)
Better than she hulk.
1:11
Really? Are we actively ignoring this?
it was 1912
You know gay has multiple meanings, right? Back then it was more synonymous with being carefree and cheerful.
Gay dragonfly?
9/10 the happy dragonfly, but i can’t tell the difference between male and female insects so i guess we’ll never know
Back then, "gay" simply meant "happy"
110 years later...
Wait
So was the dragonfly gay or just happy?
This "artist friend" looks feminine to me, so may be gay as well. Love me some gay bugs
Back then "gay" simply means "happy".
Beautiful!
"LET ALL MY RED FLAGS FADE TO WHIIIIITE I GIVE UP"
Wish I knew where to find these shorts without all the TH-cam compression. Anyone know sources for early film 1890-1920 in high quality?
Gay dragonfly🤣
ok, who came here from the "do not research iceberg" vid 🤚
comments be like
Its Awsome. Using real dead bugs
bruh its so dark
Everyone is talking about how they used dead bugs yet I want to know how he found that many
It is very funny this old fashion 😎🤣🤣🤣
HannahTheHorrible directed me here. What a nutty movie!
i love insects and this short film XD
ayo froggie got a phattie
The og bug's life
No entendí nada pero es una obra maestra 😅
came here from hannahthehorrible's dnr iceberg video, i dont get how this is on tier six because this is actually pretty fascinating. albeit a little creepy though lol
i thought theese were just figures but they are REAL DEAD BUGS???
MR BEETLE! What have you done? You kissed a dragonflyyyyy at the gay dragonfly cluuuub
Omg i laughed so much that's so cute :D
So, this is what the bugs in my dreams do outside of being part of my dreams. Well I'm generally surprised that they have a life outside of my dreams like committing adultery.
Hollow Knight Lore:
I enjoyed this more than some Netflix series
How did he make those miniatures? Were they dollhouse furniture? There were no 3d printers back then
МЕСТЬ КИНЕМАТОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО ОПЕРАТОРА(1912).
Long long journey to the darkness to the beetle leaders and officials to rule the world 🤣🤣🤣
I didn't understand the ending. Where they were? And why?
Uh im going to destroy Tokyo
is the dancing frog in that "club" dead or just an prop?
A Bugs Life but made in Russia and rated R
that's kafkaesque innit
Im from top
Ten who else 🙌
IG de la bichita?